| Thomas Amory - Presbyterian Church - 1766 - 602 pages
...cxlfiii. 2. capacapacities, if we endeavour to referable theni in recthude and devotion ; ftriving to do the •will of God upon earth, as it is done by thent in heaven ? * To confirm its in the belief that there really extft fuch beings, noble inftances... | |
| New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Tract Association - 1824 - 430 pages
...glorious liberty of the sons and daughters of <Jod ; but if we would profit by these proofs of his love, we must accept of his salvation on the terms he offers...to cleanse our hearts from evil, that they may be filled with the graces of the Holy Spirit. He has given us all a time for repentance ; he has offered... | |
| William Maxwell - Educators - 1835 - 436 pages
...mouth; in a word, to be more like the blessed Saviour of sinners. How happy should we be, could we do the will of God upon earth as it is done in the heavens! Let us, my dear friend, aim constantly at this, and the God of love, " who gave his son... | |
| William Beveridge - Sermons, English - 1843 - 474 pages
...whatsoever their outward condition may be, and howsoever other people may say or think of them. For they do the will of God upon earth, as it is done in Heaven : they shine as lights in the world: they have the honour to i Sam. 2. s0. " honour God," and to "... | |
| Sydney Smith - Sermons, English - 1846 - 484 pages
...marks of Christ ; here are the signs of that beautiful faith which blesses where it goes, and does the will of God upon earth, as it is done in heaven. Strive then in the days of the pilgrimage, in the long and weary way, to keep off the spots of the... | |
| 1847 - 750 pages
...(2 Pet. i. 4,) we must consider, that so far as t]tey are partakers of this nature, so far they must do the will of God upon earth, as it is done in heaven. A divine temper of spirit must shine in those whom God is pleased to choose and causes to approach... | |
| Robert Vaughan - Bible - 1849 - 118 pages
...has ever brought them. Not only has it the truth, in a measure of its own, which should dispose men to do the will of God upon earth as it is done in heaven — it has, in fact, sustained men in living that manner of life upon the earth as no other system... | |
| William Beveridge (bp. of st. Asaph.) - 1850 - 584 pages
...whatsoever their outward condition may be, and howsoever other people may say or think of them. For they do the will of God upon earth, as it is done in heaven : they shine as lights in the world : they have the honour to honour God, and to be honoured by him4.... | |
| James Green - 1900 - 124 pages
...and intensity of the love which they emit, as He looks down upon those beloved ones, who are striving to do the will of God upon earth as it is done in Heaven. They are as a flame of fire looking into the hearts of those who are suffering persecution for His... | |
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